WICHITA, Kan. Meritrust Credit Union has selected ForeScout Technologies’ CounterACT network access control system.
Meritrust said it wanted to bring additional network security to its headquarters and branch locations, gain visibility into all network-connected devices and protect itself from the possibility of rogue devices accessing networks or information.
ForeScout Technologies said CounterACT gives Meritrust’s IT team one dynamic view of the entire 15-location network and its 2,000 connected devices. It also allows the credit union to implement its security policies and provides the capability to remediate unapproved devices or those that deviated from policy.
Meritrust said the main reason it chose ForeScout CounterACT was its flexible and agentless approach to policy control. “In a banking environment, there are a lot of thin clients such as teller machines and embedded devices. With these systems, any extra overhead, such as installing an agent, could adversely impact performance and slow our ability to service members. Additionally, we wanted to avoid the management nightmare of installing and maintaining an agent on each device,” said Brian Meyer, information security officer at Meritrust CU.
Other factors cited by Meritrust in the choice of CounterACT included its support for multiple network switch and infrastructure vendors, ease of installation and its “listen only” mode, a passive testing feature that made the deployment process risk-free, simple and unobtrusive by enabling the team to confirm all the policies were correctly configured and validated in advance of the full activation.
